TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO THE PETROGRAD SOVIET

Written:Written on June 2, 1918Published:First published in 1931 inLenin Miscellany XVIII.

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Tobe telephoned  to the Smolny,
Petrograd[1]:

Inview of the cutting of the Siberian Railway by the
Czechoslovaks and the tremendous threat to transport, in
view of interrupted communications the very greatest peril
menaces the food supply.

ComradeVladimirov insists, and I support him, that
Petrograd should urgently send its best food supply personnel
to Moscow. These personnel, together with strong
detachments of selected workers, may save the situation.

Don’tdelay. Don’t wait for help from outside. Strain
every effort for extraordinary measures by the Petrograd
workers.

[1]Atthe top of this document Lenin wrote: “If this cannot be
telephoned immediately to Petrograd, it should be sent by direct line.”—Ed.